Sleeping WIth Vultures

[therewerefifty]

Who: Anyone
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Windrose
When: 9/24

[Makie opens her eyes a crack; finally, after a good six weeks.  She feels too heavy and worn out, so something is obviously amiss, though her first thought is maybe she's just ill.  She's had mornings like this in the past, before a friendly angel came and cleared the disease from her lungs.

She's probably also not alone, either.  Well, then.

It might be why, despite how fragilely she shuffles toward the kitchen soon afterward, she looks amazingly content.  Maybe she spent that much time dreaming some good shit, who knows?  Or maybe it's just that she's no longer alone anymore.  Other crew on the Windrose might have noticed she had a visitor in the past few weeks.  Makie's sorry, guys.  Hopefully Lilly didn't break anything :|

When she's woken up some with food and good tea and has caught up with her crew and made sure they're all still in one piece, she'll hit the network, looking tired and pale but courteous as always.]

[Broadcast]

I've been asleep a long time, it seems.

For those who don't know me, my name is Otono-Tachibana Makie.  There's a relatively new addition to the fleet whom some of you may have met.  [And regretted it.]  She's a small child by the name of Lilly, fair-haired, who has... some difficulty communicating.  But she likes to explore.  If you find her on your ship, please treat her well.  If you wish to remove her from your ship, I will retrieve her.

[She's got the best bet of doing it without causing more disaster, at any rate.  Please be nice to her feral child, Fleet.  She asks nicely.]

...thank you in advance.

Have I missed anything important in the last... month? 

Comments

[action]

[therewerefifty]

[Uh, wow. She wasn't expecting it to be that long, but after a moment, her startled expression smooths out. She honestly is relieved.]

Too weak for my liking. But if I've been asleep for that long... well, if it's just too much sleep I'm sure I'll recover easily enough. [It beats tuberculosis, that's for sure.] I'm sorry if it was inconvenient.

[action]

[passingthrough]

[Kitty smiles softly.] Come on, don't apologize for something like that. Are you hungry? We've still got some food collected from the last stop. I'll make you something. I'll even try not to screw it up.

[action]

[therewerefifty]

[Oh good god, yes. She wasn't looking forward to making it herself. Makie just wants to sit down and inhale a few cups of tea or something.]

That would be wonderful, Kitty. Thank you. [She's going to continue shuffling kitchenwards, then.] What was our last stop like? I assume I managed to miss one.

[action]

[passingthrough]

Star system with a variety of moons and planets. It was very divided. Three different, useless factions. [She was not a fan.] There was some excitement. I missed a lot of it myself, side tracked with other things. [Like so many of the other mutants being in a coma at once only to wake up with some bad news.] Something about a dragon? I don't know.

[action]

[therewerefifty]

A dragon...? [The star system itself seems unimportant, but that's interesting.] It's not the sort of thing I'd have expected out here in the middle of space.

[action]

[passingthrough]

There's a dragon egg in the fleet someone got from the tree on the hand-holding planet, so we may have a full time one at some point too. [Dragons in space—it's a thing.]

[action]

[therewerefifty]

Are dragons friendly creatures? The lore in my own homeland seems divided on that score.

[She sits down at the kitchen table, settling and slouching more than usual. Which okay, for Makie, is still pretty proper.]

[action]

[passingthrough]

I didn't hear much about what was going on recently, but I'm going to say that one wasn't. Reports may vary. I've met some dragons in the prison and they were fine. It probably depends on who they are and where they're from.

[It's not much of a difference but she does notice a shift. Good time to prepare some food.] What do you like to drink?

[action]

[therewerefifty]

Tea. I had some ginger tea in the cupboards, but it's... been a while. [She doesn't know if anyone else drinks it, but a month of sleeping could mean it's gone.]

Dragons are much like men, then. I suppose we'll take this one as it comes. [Should the dragon egg hatch and grow to a decent size, anyway. ...hrm.]

I hope it's not very big, for its own sake.

[action]

[passingthrough]

[She opens the cupboards to look and shuffles some things around before finding it had moved to the back behind some boxes.] Found it.

The ships weren't exactly designed for huge. I think Bigby runs into problems with that sometimes. [Or she assumes he would.]

[action]

[therewerefifty]

Bigby?

[Someone she hasn't met. But a huge someone, from the sounds of it.]

[action]

[passingthrough]

Wolf of the big variety. [And bad, but she'll leave that out. He hasn't been bad to her or Sascha.]

[action]

[therewerefifty]

I'm going to assume he's more than a simple wolf, if the Fleet have pulled him here. But that wouldn't surprise me. I've had a reindeer as a doctor, before.

[action]

[passingthrough]

Well, he is immortal and talks and comes from fairytails, so a little different, sure.

Did you say reindeer doctor? [She must have misheard you thinks the girl who just said she knows a talking wolf from fairytails.]

[action]

[therewerefifty]

Yes. [Makie actually grins.] Apparently, he's also a pirate. He helped me with my illness, back in Adstringendum.

[action]

[passingthrough]

Illness? [It hasn't been lost on her that there's something, but they haven't really discussed. Or maybe her mun forgot. She's the worst.]

[action]

[therewerefifty]

[She shakes her head.] Lung sickness. Or tuberculosis, I suppose you would say. It's no longer a problem.

[Which is why it hasn't really been discussed, it's all good. She's been putting on weight gradually to make up for the stick-thin nature of her arrival.]

[action]

[passingthrough]

I'm sorry or congratulations for it being under control. Something in between there?

[She's quiet for a beat.] There wouldn't have been a cure when you're from, was there?

[action]

[therewerefifty]

None that I could condone. [There's a supposed miracle medicine at home, she's heard of, that can suppress the symptoms. But given one of its key ingredients requires extract from a human liver...eesh.]

I have no intention of returning home, however. Should the Fleet see fit to remove me, I imagine I will return to Adstringendum.

[action]

[passingthrough]

What makes you think they'd just return you there? [She's curious about the confidence in it. After all, intentions rarely matter in these places.]

[action]

[therewerefifty]

It's where they pulled me from. And Lilly. Sam, too. And Lilly and Sam... remember more than I do about my own life, so I imagine I will go back there to catch up.

[She smiles ruefully.] Though it seems I'll have to die first.

[action]

[passingthrough]

You'll have to what? [Okay, she heard it, but she's not sure she's following which is a little sad considering she was very nearly dead herself back home. Just seconds away from the end.]

[action]

[therewerefifty]

Oh... [Yeah she. Kind of realises now how that sounds.] It's...complicated.

In Adstringendum, I was very sick, still. And I was forced into a fight that I was no longer ready for. My lungs gave out. It's... the last thing I remember from there.

When I woke up here, I assumed I was dead. But Sam remembers those events, and he says that I recover. Death is a fickle thing in Adstringendum, it seems.

[action]

[passingthrough]

Right. That happened in Marina sometimes toward the end. [In the beginning if you died you were just gone. Once they learned about the virtual reality nature of the prison the wardens decided to dispense with that.] Sorry. [What do you say to dying when someone gets better? It's part of why she doesn't talk that much about having died at home.]

Who is Lilly? [She made it sound like someone she should know like she knows Sam. Winchester, right?]

[action]

[therewerefifty]

[...oh. Huh.]

You haven't met Lilly yet? She's a new arrival to the Fleet, it seems. [There's a ghost of amusement there.] She's been spending a lot of time in my room while I was asleep, it seems.